/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22363048]

unsurpassed

[Anonymous No.22363155]

is this the book with that godawful opening page that gets copypasta'd here

[Anonymous No.22364187]

>>22363155
PROLOGUE
The Wastes of Kûniüri

>It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
—AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN

2147 Year-of-the-Tusk, the Mountains of Demua

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.

The citadel of Ishuäl succumbed during the height of the Apocalypse. But no army of inhuman Sranc had scaled its ramparts. No furnace-hearted dragon had pulled down its mighty gates. Ishuäl was the secret refuge of the Kûniüric High Kings, and no one, not even the No-God, could besiege a secret.

Months earlier, Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II, High King of Kûniüri, had fled to Ishuäl with the remnants of his household. From the walls, his sentries stared pensively across the dark forests below, their thoughts stricken by memories of burning cities and wailing multitudes. When the wind moaned, they gripped Ishuäl’s uncaring stone, reminded of Sranc horns. They traded breathless reassurances. Had they not eluded their pursuers? Were not the walls of Ishuäl strong? Where else might a man survive the end of the world?

[Anonymous No.22364190]

>>22363155
filtered

[Anonymous No.22364233]

>>22364187
Pure kino, you can tell Bakker loaded u as much lore terminology in a single opening page to filter the casuals

[Anonymous No.22364236]

>>22364187
>if I add random accents to half the vowels in my shitty made-up names they will surely seem exotic
god i hate americans

[Anonymous No.22364263]

>>22364236
It's not random at all, the book features an entire etymological tree of linguistic groups spanning several thousand years, and various nations inhibiting uniquely developed cultures. People dicksuck Tolkien for doing his languages right but when another author does it its suddenly wrong and tryhard?

[Anonymous No.22364278]

>>22363048
Is Bakker the greatest living thinker?

[Anonymous No.22364285]

His short story Crash Space is really good too. It's in some philosophy journal but there is a free draft version out there too.

[Anonymous No.22364440]

10th for /sffg/ and its king, R Scott Bakker.

[Anonymous No.22364478]

>>22364263
>People dicksuck Tolkien for doing his languages right but when another author does it its suddenly wrong and tryhard?
Yes. Tolkien was being original. Noting about Bakker is original. Not his bugman philosophy, not his poor aping of Herbert and Tolkien, not his cringe obsession with homosexuality and gay rape. None of it. You can read authors who did all of it first and did it better.

[Anonymous No.22364514]

>>22364236
Bakker isn't American.

[Anonymous No.22364621]

>>22364187
This reads like chinese wuxia novels

[Anonymous No.22364640]

>>22364263
The "linguistic groups" in Bakker are random consonants and vowels smashed together with absolutely zero understanding of what makes language beautiful. combined with the gay rape and overall bullshit, bakker is just another sheltered academic obsessed with homosexuality and violence while being too scared to experienced either of them. I guarantee if he got his hands bloody while butchering a deer or shit on his cock after fucking a man, he would tone down the horseshit.

[Anonymous No.22364699]

>>22364640
>obsessed with homosexuality and violence while being too scared to experienced either of them. I guarantee if he got his hands bloody while butchering a deer or shit on his cock after fucking a man, he would tone down the horseshit.
What are you talking about?
Please, take your medicine, go outside, make contact with greenery

[Anonymous No.22364815]

>>22363048
Unsurpassed in cringe, maybe.

[Anonymous No.22364826]

>>22364640
Bakker has raped more men then you've seen bitch. How dare you insult him. I will break you for your fucking insolence.

[Anonymous No.22364877]

>>22364826
Can confirm I met him back in summer of 92

[Anonymous No.22364997]

>>22363155
>>22364236
>>22364478
>>22364621
>>22364640
cope
Bakker is KING
>Then the madness fell away. Once again it was the pure thunder of the charge. The strange camaraderie of men bent to a single, fatal purpose. Hummocks, scrub, and the bones of the Vulgar Holy War’s dead rushed beneath. The wind bled through chain links, tousled Thunyeri braids and Tydonni crests. Bright banners slapped against the sky. The heathen, wicked and foul, drew closer, ever closer. One last storm of arrows, these ones almost horizontal to the ground, punching against shield and armour. Some were struck from their saddles. Tongue tips were bitten off in the concussion of the fall. The unhorsed arched across the turf, screamed and swatted at the sky. Wounded mounts danced in frothing circles nearby. The rest thundered on, over grasses, through patches of blooming milkwort waving in the wind. They couched their lances, twenty thousand men draped in great mail hauberks over thick felt, with coifs across their faces and helms that swept down to their cheeks, riding chargers caparisoned in mail or iron plates. The fear dissolved into drunken speed, into the momentum, became so mingled with exhilaration as to be indistinguishable from it. They were addicted to the charge, the Men of the Tusk. Everything focused into the glittering tip of a lance. The target nearer, nearer … The rumble of hooves and drums drowned their kinsmen’s song. They crashed through a thin screen of sumac … Saw eyes whiten in sudden terror. Then impact. The jarring splinter of wood as lances speared through shield, through armour. Suddenly the ground became still and solid beneath them, and the air rang with wails and shouts. Hands drew sword and axe. Everywhere figures grappled and hacked. Horses reared. Blades pitched blood into the sky. And the Kianene fell, undone by their ferocity, crumpling beneath northern hands, dying beneath pale faces and merciless blue eyes. The heathen recoiled from the slaughter—and fled.

[Anonymous No.22365006]

>>22363048
Just finished book 3. Liked some parts, especially the premise and the Dunyain but everyone is such a piece of shit I don't think I'll continue. Even Achamian gets drunk and beats hookers

[Anonymous No.22365034]

>>22364640
>>22364826
Neither of you had anal intercourse with a man nor collected the skin of deer during said intercourse. Begone, yee who's arms and legs are naught but second mouth.

[Anonymous No.22365223]

>>22364997
All hail Bakker! God wills it!

[Anonymous No.22365238]

>>22365006
Akka never beat a hooker

[Anonymous No.22365299]

Esmenet's butt!

[Anonymous No.22365753]

>>22365238
You're right, I double checked. Even so, he's not much of a protagonist.

[Anonymous No.22366140]

>>22363048
Daily reminder that Kant was fully retroactively refuted by Bakker.

For example, while Quine fatally weakened the synthetic/analytic distinction, it was Bakker who provided the proof that calcified dogma is not observably different from analytic fact using a combination of the philosophy of information and semiotics of abstraction, joining the logical systems of Floridi to the physics of messaging via Landauer's Principal and computational entropy. Incomputability, Krylov Complexity, Yao Entropy, have disasterous consequences for proving analytics that are not tautologies, and nowhere is this more apparent then in the Dunyain-Logos Paradigm, as viewed from the Absolute Judging Eye Vector, Whale Rape Gang Bang Hypothesis laid out in The Great Ordeal. Bakker brings philosophy from Kant to Quine full circle, unsublating both, so both can be resublated as an organic whole into the dynamics of whale-mother-cave-rape-as-logos, which provides proof of the incompleteness of Logos due to the incomputability problem. Turing would have been proud!

Note that Kant is also more seriously retroactively refuted vis-á-vis the transcendental aesthetic via the proof of Meat Fueled Murder Rape Orgy (where the inefficiency of the alien space nuke, and resultant high level of radiation released, reminiscent of primitive, WWII era nuclear weapons, results in the Scalded as a boipussy dynamical system, which, shows that even a simple system represented by a differential equation can, and will necissarily produce chaos if it reaches a phase of three in any cycle.) The result is that the faculties cannot be an anchor of anything, as strong variance driven by "initial" conditions invariably leads to chaos. Bakker symbolizes this using the stochastic forces of nuclear radiation, as from those quantum activity we still see the larger classical objects of emergence in the rape orgy.

This shows the teleology of rape, the Inchori Theory and defeats appeals to classical ethics as such.

Again, even more than retroactive refutation, which others have done, Bakker RETROACTIVELY SUBLATES Kant.

[Anonymous No.22366339]

>>22364640
kek true

[Anonymous No.22366349]

>>22364187
i own the paperback and i’ve never made it past the first page

[Anonymous No.22366678]

>>22364478
>Tolkien was being original
I have no clue if this is bait or someone who actually has profound mental retardation.

[Anonymous No.22367180]

>>22364640
so fucking tru
i hate fags btw

[Anonymous No.22368016]

>>22364278
Yes